Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Love rarely waits for permission.
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She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.
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I opened my door and everything they had for me was tainted because the land of Used-to-Be is just full of ghosts starving for your breath.
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Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.
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Lawlessness doesn’t mean there’s no law, you know, it just means that there are a lot of different laws slugging it out in the streets, and none of them have come out on top yet.
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Zelda was winter's best dame: pale and dark with a shimmer of Christmas in her eye, a flash of New Year's in her laugh.
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Anyway, nobody bothers with real beginnings anymore. We stopped making up stories about the creation of the world ages ago.
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Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.
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So my name is Scout. Yeah, my mom read To Kill a Mockingbird. Leave it to her to think 5th grade required reading is totally deep.
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You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
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Family is a transitive property.
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He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.
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...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
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Who am i, really? What does any of it mean? i'm so afraid someday everyone will see that i'm just an imposter, a fake, among all the real and gorgeous godheads.
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Narrators may go where they please.
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All witches must keep up a certain level of deviance in their personal lives, or we should be expelled from the union.
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You ain't no woodstove; you can't just squat in the middle of my house and stew.
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I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afraid I've left the kettle on or whatever it is people say when they're bored.
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And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.
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And there’s nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of candy. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Newitz are the kindest ladies you’ll ever meet, and they have nips of whiskey in their tea like cowboys.
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“I am so useful. I am not alone. And neither is he. “It must be nice,” said Aubergine suddenly, “to have a friend like that, and like things so much.” Yes.
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You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.
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I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.
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Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.